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David Armstrong
Full Series List in Order
A Kavanaugh & Salt Mystery
A Kind of Acquaintance (Feb-2008)Written Out (Sep-2009)
A Pact of Silence (Mar-2011)
Book List in Order: 25 titles
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Small Vices
- May-2002
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As DC Jane Salt investigates a series of increasingly violent cash heists in the London area, her lover, Inspector Frank Kavanagh, is seconded to NCIS who are pursuing a serial killer targeting prostitutes in the Midlands. Kavanagh finds that things ...
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The Rising Place
- Jun-2004
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If you found a box of letters written during World War II-would you read them? And what if you did and discovered an amazing story about unrequited love, betrayal, and murder in a small southern town? A young lawyer meets Emily Hodge, a 75-year-old s...
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A Kind of Acquaintance
- Feb-2008
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An atmospheric crime novel from a prize-winning author - DI Frank Kavanagh, along with his lover and colleague DC Jane Salt, is undertaking a routine inquiry into the murder of Sarah Clement, a once successful novelist. But the case is complicated wh...
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Written Out
- Sep-2009
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The new DI Frank Kavanagh thriller - Unpopular novelist Tom Oliver initially isn’t much missed when he disappears at the end of a week tutoring at a writer’s centre in rural Shropshire. It eventually falls to DI Frank Kavanagh and his colle...
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Holding Battersea
- Oct-2009
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'For you, voting Conservative would be just like adultery and you won't know what a pleasure that is until you've tried it!' Lucy tires of her husband, Barry, and his serial infidelities. She begins an affair with their mutual friend Tom, who respond...
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A Pact of Silence
- Mar-2011
- / Police Procedural
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In the long, hot summer of 1969, two young men are involved in the accidental killing of their boss in a Shropshire market town. Traumatized, they conceal his body, but leave behind a vital clue. Four decades later, DI Frank Kavanagh and DC Jane Salt...
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Night's Black Agents
- Aug-2011
- / Suspense
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Atmospheric crime novel set in the 1930's on the waterways of England.The book was short-listed for the Best First Crime Novel award by the Crime Writers' Association when first published in 1993....
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Going Anywhere
- Oct-2014
- / General Fiction
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"Controlled, poetically laconic prose . . . a perfect distillation of the ways that grief seems unfathomably large and mysterious." -- Lev Raphael, author of Rosedale in Love"Armstrong's characters are . . . elevated to the heights of tragedy through...
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In the Days of Lachoneus
- Jun-2015
- / Christian
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In the Days of Lachoneus is an epic story of politics and patriotism, intrigue and murder, war and violence, love and betrayal, friendship and loyalty, believers and unbelievers, good and evil, set in the landscape of pre-Columbian Meso-America. The ...
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Reiterations
- Jan-2017
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Winner of the New American Fiction Prize, David Armstrong's Reiterations is sure to impress. "It is Armstrong's gift to weave the fantastic into the mundane," says The Literary Review, "to show us how ordinary lives are streaked with both terror a...
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Making It Rain
- Apr-2017
- / General Fiction
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Set in south London, Making It Rain is a satirical dissection of office life and politics.
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We’ve all been there â€" workplaces made dysfunctional by inflated egos and competing ambitions â€" not to mention petty jealousies, imprud...
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Philodemus, On Anger
- Sep-2020
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This English translation of On Anger provides a newly edited Greek text of one of the most important Herculaneum papyri, the only collection of literary texts to survive the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. On Anger is our sole evidence for the Epicure...
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The Third Gift
- Oct-2020
- / General Fiction
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Charlie Hall doesn't want to leave his home and friends, but his father persuades Charlie and his mother that moving to another town where nobody knows them is their only hope for a better life. When the Halls arrive at their new home, Charlie meets ...
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Accidental Coincidence
- Dec-2020
- / Psychological Suspense
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A mysterious legal crime thriller with religious implications and paranormal twists that awakens a secret vigilante group to get justice.Innocent people are dying. Mark Solier is a devoutly religious man and he is arrested for killing them with just ...
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Fear The Panopticon
- Jul-2021
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We live in a brainwashed world, one filled with daily conspiracies, a dystopian prison-like society, where everyone can know who you are and what you are doing. Think about your behaviors, you don't know who is watching.John Johnson is exposing the p...
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Careful What You Wish For
Cindy thought she had found what she always wished for, a happy ending. Joyce soon discovers what Cindy was wishing for is not what she got.This is a story as part of a series called Day After. There are many popular stories, that on the surface seem...
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Day After
This is a 3-story collection from the Day After series. There are many popular stories, that on the surface seem good, some even great. As time moves forward, it is often interesting to consider what happened next. How did it turn out after the end o...
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Less Than Kind
1968, and Charles Somerville, son of impoverished landowner Philip Somerville, is on the run from drug dealers in the Welsh Borders. In nearby Llantrisilli, newcomers James and Suzie find their sylvan idyll brutally and shockingly shattered by the vo...
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Save Your Friend
A friend that saves your life is a good friend. A friend that enables you to escape certain death, and then enables you to disappear, is a great friend. This is a story of friendship, one that will change the world.This is a story as part of a series...
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Thought for the Day
Traumatized by his confrontation with a serial killer and subsequent nervous breakdown, Detective Inspector Kavanagh transfers to London. But when he is assigned the case of kidnapped advertising supremo Martin Foyle, Kavanagh knows he will come unde...
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Unfit
Full of anger and filled with hate, a decision is made to hold others accountable for their bad behavior. Two friends devise a violent plan to eliminate the cause of their suffering. On a cold day they execute their plan.This is a story as part of a ...
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Until Dawn Tomorrow
Birmingham cop Detective Inspector Frank Kavanagh is pursuing a murderer who may have killed several times...but he feels that he 'knows' the man he is looking for. In his search for the killer, Kavanagh becomes increasingly disturbed by his own aggr...